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Turning thumbs, waiting for a review audit test

As described in this other question, sometimes the creation of an audit test takes several seconds, making it a real giveaway. Is there a way to improve the performance?
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Have covert review audits been secretly rolled-out on some sites?

Recently, in the last few weeks I've noticed a shift, reviews turning-up particularly in the reopen queue which show no indication of having been edited to be any more on-topic. (Of course, they've ...
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Review audits are not working in sync with filter in First posts review queue [duplicate]

I was in the First posts review queue reviewing posts. I noticed this suddenly: Link: https://askubuntu.com/review/first-posts/1163303 As you can see in the screenshot, I have used the filter option ...
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When I encounter an audit, can I write anything into the custom flag box?

When I review posts and encounter an audit, and I've confirmed that it's an audit that wants me to flag/downvote/close the post (by opening the actual question in another tab), is it a free ticket to ...
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What does "Reviewed" mean in review audit results (vs "No Action Needed")?

What's the difference between "No Action Needed" and "Reviewed" in audit results? Is "Reviewed" what happens when you e.g. vote or something then click I'm Done?
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Review ban reason and warnings

When I'm entering reviews on Stack Overflow I'm seeing: https://stackoverflow.com/review/first-posts/14369458 is a textbook example of a poor question. "No action needed" is completely wrong. ...
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How to contest a review ban?

This post suggests a button to contest a failed audit and this other post as well as a few others agree on the fact that sometimes the audit system consider a comment on a perfect post as a negative ...
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Getting a close review in the low quality queue

I was reviewing in the low quality queue and got this. as opposed to: Possibly an audit glitch? Is this a bug?
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Review Triage: How to protest against an audit? [closed]

This audit in the Review Triage looks like a legitimate question to me ("How to implement an upload progress bar?"). I was about to edit it to improve the English and remove the unnecessary link, ...
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How can I know how if I have been reviewing correctly?

A while back, I had an audit failure, a right one at that. So, that prompted me to ask this question. On the same lines, in general, how do I know how I have been doing at reviews ? I can see the 'all ...
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Can I increase my review reputation?

Is there any action we can do to increase our reputation in review? For example, imagine I was banned from the review queues for 30 days. After this period, is there something I can do that will end ...
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Has the criteria for the audits changed?

On Meta.AskUbuntu.com we have these two new questions: Should voting to close a correctly closed question for the right reason really be considered failure? Failed audit - unclear really? From ...
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What happens if I skip a review audit?

As the title states, I can't find any record of what happens if I hit the Skip button on a review item that happened to be an audit. This brilliant answer doesn't seem to cover it. Will I be flagged ...
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Review audits are broken? [duplicate]

So I can't review for 2 days because of too many incorrect reviews. I just got to review an answer that was good. Just a good answer. Some explanation and a piece of code that matches the question. I ...
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Which sites currently have review-audits? [duplicate]

Some sites have review audits, and some don't. Which ones currently do and what is the criteria for activating this feature?
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Review audit failed [duplicate]

I was reviewing some posts and this came up: https://stackoverflow.com/review/first-posts/4500300: class CreateComments < ActiveRecord::Migration def change create_table :comments do |t| t....
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Return after brief hiatus to find I have a review ban

I didn't visit SO for last 2 days. When I come today and try to access review queue it says You have failed too many recent review audits – looks like you might need a break. Come back on Apr 26 ...
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I was able to review after failing an audit, but later got blocked from reviewing

I might be just me, but it's not the first time this happens. I failed an audit yesterday (can't remember in which category) and I got the Stop, look and listen message. I have no excuse whatsoever ...
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Is there a way to view failed test reviews? [duplicate]

In your userprofile, you can view your reviews (activity -> reviews). It is not clear whether a review was a test, or a legitimate review. I think passed tests are included (I'm not sure though), but ...
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Review audit gone awry

I just did a review for a late post. It was of poor quality and I decided to edit the post. Upon clicking 'edit' I was redirected to a page saying "This answer has been deleted". After refreshing the ...
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Good review audit has "possible spam" warning?

I was looking through someone's edit history and I was looking at this review: Why does it give this notice, while at the same time saying that it's a high-quality post?
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Could you at least give me a hint, what recent audits I've failed?

It happens sometimes. I've met an answer in first posts queue, which was not very good formated, but tried to diagnose the OPs problem as the bug in some library. I can't say if it's correct or not, ...
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Cheated audit with faked tags? [duplicate]

I've failed this audit on this question. The problem is I've seen in my audit window something else as there actually is. The question in audit had javascript tag, while actually it has no such tag, ...
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Review audit on a question with a downvote?

I just had an audit on this question. Yes, I passed it, but why was there still an audit if there was already a downvote on the question (not from me)? At the time of review, the score was +14/-1. I ...
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Why are unicorns playing with tags?

It was a nice day in the close queue, until I found this question. At first, I thought it was mis-tagged since I was filtering on java and the question was about std::function<T()> (I know that ...
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Bad audit once again [closed]

I have accepted the fact we occasionally run into bad audits. I, myself, have already seen plenty, as well as others have reported to meta where the system is tricked by the amount of upvotes, etc. ...
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I disagree with that audit - low effort convert-that-for-me-question [closed]

I've just 'failed' an audit in close queue for that question: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20061359/how-to-convert-a-for-loop-to-a-while-loop-in-java I think that it should be closed as off-...
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A recommendation question and answer in an audit. Gotta be kidding [closed]

This question appears as an audit in reopen queue. I mean both, the question asks for a recommendation and the answer recommends [..]. This shouldn't be an audit in the first place - specially the ...
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Some questions on how the review algorithms work exactly

I would like to know how the review algorithm 'decides' that a late post need to be reviewed. When a user fails a review audit, he gets this: If the same user failed too many review audits, he gets ...
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Why have I been banned from the review queues? [closed]

I've been blocked from the review queues, and I don't know why. I recently hit +2K rep on Stack Overflow, so I have just started reviewing Suggested Edits and Low Quality. The message says that I ...
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Reviews Audits: Are Repeat Failers Audited More Often?

I've just been allowed to review again after a month banning; I'm not proud of it, but it was totally my own fault. I used to review every day in my lunch break in work, so I used to clear a good ...
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Received message stating I failed too many review audits? [duplicate]

When clicking on the "review" tab today, I saw the following message: You have failed too many recent review audits – looks like you might need a break. Come back in 4 days to continue reviewing. ...
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2 answers
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Your review was inappropriate [closed]

I was recently reviewing first posts on SO when I was presented with this response: Why does the C preprocessor interpret the word "linux" as the constant "1"? Which it obviously ...
Tomdarkness's user avatar
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1 answer
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Failed review ban - 30 day window - clarification please

I found an explanation of the duration of the review bans after failed audits in the answer to this question The time of automatic review bans should be increased with every new ban each review ban ...
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Would you fail this close votes audit? [closed]

I believe that this audit is a bad audit. (hm, for some reason it now says someone else reviewed and passed it, but I failed. maybe because I typed this question before pressing "I understand," so it ...
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Reopen audit question selection

The criteria for selecting reopen audit questions as defined by Shog here Recently asked Score between 5 and 15 (inclusive) Never locked, migrated, or deleted No close votes or downvotes, ever (On ...
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Dispute reopen review audit [duplicate]

I failed this audit. The original post is here. I don't think this audit is good, because the question is clearly "too broad" and should be closed as such, and remain closed as such. No harm is done,...
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Failed too many review audits - why?

I just came back from a nice vacation to find out "I failed too many review audits". As far as I can remember, I left for my vacation with good review status (failed a few, but overall taking good ...
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Does flagging a review audit as duplicate penalize me?

I just had a review audit of a First Question. It had flawless form, but I thought it must have been asked before. So I searched and found the exact question. I upvoted it, and not flagged it, out ...
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How many failed audits trigger a review suspension?

I failed an audit in the suggested edits queue today. No excuses on my part, it was (in hindsight) an obviously invalid edit and I wasn't paying proper attention. However, what I found odd is that I ...
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2-day ban dispute [closed]

I have been banned for reviewing for 2 days by the auto-ban. I was given a message that said that I had failed too many recent audits - though I have not used the site in over a week, and this is the ...
Inbar Rose's user avatar
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Wrong audit question [closed]

I've just failed audit on Lite (ansi c 89) os for custom cpu?, voting that it should be closed. In my opinion it is either recommendation ("if there are any alternative open source os") or too broad ...
Oleg V. Volkov's user avatar
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Review ban after skipping a review

So I received the following message today after clicking the 'Skip' button on a close vote review because I guess I took too long to vote on it and it said it was already closed when I tried to vote. ...
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Apparent mistake in review audit system [closed]

As you all may know, when reviewing other people's posts we get the tricky question every once in a while (I think it's like one in ten or something like that) to see if we're paying attention. I got ...
Juan Cortés's user avatar
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I can't review for two days after failing one audit

I was reviewing Low Quality Answers and I failed an audit (I kind of think the audit was wrong, but this isn't what this is about. Then again, I may have just made a mistake). I was a bit shocked to ...
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Who audits the audit reviews?

I just failed an audit by not voting to reopen this SO question. But, IMHO, it's a poor fit for SO and should be closed. I wouldn't hesitate to close it if I stumbled upon it as "off topic" or maybe ...
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I failed an audit because it should have been a comment

I just completed a review for a late post which turned out to be an audit. The answer was supposed to be a comment but based on the user's reputation being 31 I understood that the user did not have ...
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After failing review test only getting tests and no actual reviews [duplicate]

I recently failed a review test. I thought a closed question should remain closed, but the test said it should have been re-opened. Since then every review I've been doing has been a review test. I'm ...
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Got 20 review audits in a row [duplicate]

I have just entered the Review page, and it said that 1 Late Answer was available to review... I stated reviewing, and I got 20 audits in a row! it stopped because of the daily limit, otherwise that ...
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Is failed or passed reviews of honeypot questions viewable in my activity history? [duplicate]

I was wondering about disabling honeypot questions for users with over 500 flags (or an acceptable number). Surely if a user has got this many of "helpful" flags they have a fairly good grasp of the ...
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